Staff
In 1973, Kurt Metz was appointed as the first full time Director, thanks to the support of Kenneth Macintosh. He was followed by the Austrian Michael Muerwald and Robert Agg from 1982, Marc Lombard in 1984, Aidan Jones in 1992, John Moffat in 1996, Miriam Hertzberg in 2002 and Mark Knippenberg in 2005.
In 2010 the structure of the Director's position was changed and replaced with two roles: General Director and Operational Director. Jens Sheeran started as the first Operational Director in November 2010 and Myriam Heidelberger started as General Director in March 2011.
The directors are assisted by an international team of volunteer staff staying from three months to several years. Volunteer staff are recruited in various numbers according to the time of year to assist with the running of the centre's facilities and the programme offered. These staff members are known as pinkies due to their uniform of pink t-shirts and sweatshirts. They also wear a neckerchief to represent their scouting background. Staff must meet three conditions: a minimum age of 18 on the day of starting work, ability to communicate in English, and membership in WOSM or WAGGGS.
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Famous quotes containing the word staff:
“... all my letters are read. I like that. I usually put something in there that I would like the staff to see. If some of the staff are lazy and choose not to read the mail, I usually write on the envelope “Legal Mail.” This way it will surely be read. It’s important that we educate everybody as we go along.”
—Jean Gump, U.S. pacifist. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 2, section 10, by Studs Terkel (1988)
“Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“We achieve “active” mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)